HMC Helicopter Service LLC

HMC Helicopter Service LLC, a small business based in Homestead, Florida, operates as a prime contractor providing Type III helicopter flight services—including aerial transportation, cargo lifting, wildland fire suppression, prescribed burn support, search and rescue, and natural resource monitoring—to the Department of the Interior and its bureaus under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competition across 327 federal awards.

HMC is a for-profit limited liability company competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts, though many individual task orders waive the set-aside designation once awarded under a parent IDIQ. The vendor operates fully contractor-owned and maintained Type III helicopters and executes 100 percent of its award portfolio as a prime contractor, with no subcontractor engagement reported in either the award history or Service Contract Inventory data. Activity has remained steady over the past five years, with 19 awards in 2022 declining to 9 in 2026, and $165.5 million in combined potential value across the portfolio. Seven awards totaling $1.2 million in potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting near-term recompete risk.

Customer concentration centers on the Department of the Interior. The National Park Service Southeast Region dominates by award count (155 awards, $27.6 million combined potential value), while the Interior Business Center—the administrative contracting office managing the primary master IDIQ—anchors the dollar rankings (18 awards, $64.1 million). The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4, and Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 are secondary customers. These five entities account for 73 percent of all awards and 96 percent of combined potential value. The geographic concentration—Homestead and Miami, Florida, with task orders extending nationwide for fire operations and park support in Arizona, Texas, and other regions—reflects HMC's base of operations and the seasonal and geographic dispersion of Department of the Interior missions.

HMC holds four active indefinite delivery vehicles: the On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services 2022-2027 multiple-award IDIQ ($49.5 million ceiling through April 30, 2027, 42 task orders placed), an EU Helicopter Flight Services single-award IDC for Everglades National Park and subordinate Florida parks ($5.0 million ceiling through December 31, 2030, awarded January 1, 2026), a legacy EU Helicopter Flight Services single-award IDC for Everglades National Park ($2.05 million ceiling through April 30, 2027), and an EU Pilot Services single-award IDC ($181,250 ceiling, expired April 30, 2024). Additional work flows through predecessor DOI On-Call Helicopter Flight Services contracts (2017-2018 series) carrying 68 legacy task orders. Representative work includes a $794,072.93 Bureau of Land Management delivery order for fiscal year 2025 fire operations (April 11, 2025), a $517,000 National Park Service Southeast Region delivery order for calendar-year 2026 helicopter services across Everglades, Biscayne, Dry Tortugas, and Big Cypress (January 1, 2026), and a $350,250 single-award exclusive-use contract for Everglades National Park operations (May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2027).

Service Contract Inventory data capture three reportable prime records across FY2022–FY2025, showing $1.7 million in invoiced revenue (SCI-reported federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold only): $537 thousand in FY2022, $416 thousand in FY2023, and $794 thousand in FY2025. The FTE trajectory reflects contract-level staffing of 2.3 FTEs in FY2022, 2.2 FTEs in FY2023, and 0.7 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on these SCI-reportable records ranged from a 10th percentile of $93.29 per hour to a median of $102.58 per hour and 90th percentile of $111.87 per hour. SCI data represent only a narrow window of service-contract activity and exclude goods, aircraft purchases, task orders under the $150,000 threshold, and the preponderance of HMC's delivery-order work; total federal revenue is substantially larger. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, HMC performed 100 percent of contractor hours internally with zero subcontractor engagement, consistent with its operator-based business model.

HMC competes exclusively as a prime contractor and does not subcontract; the vendor brings no sub-team relationships and operates as a direct delivery provider rather than a teaming resource for larger contractors. The predominant NAICS codes are 481211 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation, 299 awards) and 481212 or similar support codes (21 awards), with corresponding PSC codes in the V-series passenger air charter category. The vendor's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in Interior, with no material presence in defense, civilian agencies outside Interior, or grant-funded work—a concentration signal for competitive intelligence and an indicator that the vendor's recompete activity will remain pinned to Interior's helicopter-services procurement cycles and geographic demand for wildland fire and park-support operations.